Morning Minutes: Nov. 15

Friday

Nov 15, 2013 at 6:05 AM

Word of the Day, Website of the Day, Number to Know, This Day in History, Today’s Featured Birthday and Daily Quote.

Word of the Day
quietus kwy-EE-tuhs (noun) final discharge or acquittance, as from debt or obligation; removal from activity; rest; death; something that serves to suppress or quiet. — www.dictionary.com

Website of the Day
Free Music Archive
freemusicarchive.org
Free Music Archive offers free downloads under Creative Commons and other licenses. And if you ever need a birthday song to make your own e-card, they’ve got plenty.

Number to Know
50 million: Nickelback is one of the most commercially successful Canadian groups, having sold more than 50 million albums worldwide and ranking as the 11th best-selling music act, and the second best-selling foreign act in the U.S. of the 2000s, behind The Beatles.

This Day in History
Nov. 15, 1971: Intel releases the world's first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004.

Today’s Featured Birthday
Musician Chad Kroeger (39)

Daily Quote
“Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.” — Khalil Gibran

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